Speaking Discussions
“You are going camping, but the car is too small for everything.” One picture, six things on it, and two people who have to talk it through and come out with a single answer. This is the shape of Cambridge PET Speaking Part 3, and it is the part where fluent students still run dry – not because they have nothing to say, but because they have no way of saying I suppose we could leave behind… or I beg to differ.
Tasks
Speaking Discussions for B1 Learners
Every task here gives you three things: the situation, the options to weigh up, and the language to weigh them up with. Two panels of ready phrases sit under each picture – how to suggest, how to give an opinion, how to ask for one, how to agree, how to disagree, and the ideas people actually reach for when arguing a case.
Fourteen topics: what to buy for school, where to go on holiday, which car to rent, which part-time job gives the most English practice, what a town should do with an empty building. Work in pairs, or take both sides yourself and argue with your own choice – the phrases work either way.